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Pietà Military Cemetery

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The first British serviceman buried at the cemetery was a group of British soldiers buried in 1866. The majority of those interred and remembered at the cemetery are casualties of the two World Wars (but mainly the First World War), many in communal graves. The last identifiable servicemen or
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There are a number of CWGC graveyards and sites that are cared for by the British Government through the auspices of the CWGC and some of the larger collections of war graves can be found at the following locations:
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1303 First World War commonwealth casualties buried or commemorated at the Cemetery (including 20 Indian servicemen and labourers of the
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A large number of Australian and New Zealand service personnel are buried in the cemetery, the highest concentration on Malta.
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The cemetery did not escape the aerial bombardment that Valletta and its environs experienced in WW2, and in April 1941 a
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was recorded as considering doing away with the island's war cemeteries in 1978; the threat was never carried out.
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dependant buried at the site is hard to ascertain as this is a mixed civilian and military cemetery.
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Malta's CWGC Cemeteries became the centre of a controversy when the then Prime Minister of Malta
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that had impacted in the graveyard. The team successfully defused the bombs without incident.
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Researching the Lives and Service Records of World War One Soldiers
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Malta
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15 war graves of other non-Commonwealth nationalities.
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Pietà (near Valletta)
Malta
GC
Coordinates
35°53′24″N 14°29′45″E / 35.89000°N 14.49583°E / 35.89000; 14.49583
Military Cemetery and War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Pietà
Malta
Valletta
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Indian Army
Bomb Disposal
UXBs
Dom Mintoff
Pembroke Military Cemetery
Kalkara Naval Cemetery
Imtarfa
Malta Memorial
Siege of Malta (World War II)
"Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta – Researching WW1"
"Pieta Military Cemetery"
"CWGC Cemetery: Pieta Military Cemetery | Craven's Part in The Great War"
"Pieta Military Cemetery"
"Australian High Commission in"
UXB Malta: Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal 1940–44
ISBN
9780752478036
"Mintoff's threat to bulldoze the war graves"

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